Word: performed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more practical level, the Nunn plan seems to defeat its own purposes. Though it aims to give value to community work, it will in reality make community work less dignified. As lower income students are coerced into community service, they will perform with a detrimental resentment, much like the convict who receives a term of 90 hours of community work as penalty...
Tonight the Pitches and Kroks take the stage with the Alleycats, one of Yale's all-male a capella singng groups. Valentine's Day is the theme of this performance, and the Pitches will perform their classic "My Funny Valentine" in addition to "Sentimental Journey," which they performed last week at the PBH/Oxfam America Jazz for Life concert. Tonight they present "Do I Love You" for the first time...
...Coach Don MacLeod is currently in his tenth season and has amassed a record of 140-39-5. According to Lionel Sevigny, Northeastern's women's ice hockey contact, MacLeod's position is only part-time despite the varsity status of the women's hockey team. MacLeod manages to perform all his duties as a coach while maintaining another fulltime job and he does all his scouting and recruiting during his vacation time...
...show, and there, if you just sit and follow the notes that the staff has prepared for you, you can do a pretty good interview. But for some reason, on this show I had a lot of trouble. I think I just was frightened that suddenly I had to perform as the host of my own show. I was intimidated by guests. So it took a while to overcome that. I remember at one point having a major shift of attitude. After two or three years, it didn't seem that we could do anything to improve the ratings...
...towns everywhere," says McCrae. "It's our fault too. We chased out the Indians . . . hung all the good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain of a man getting a mesquite thorn removed from his thumb -- this may be the most vividly rendered...